Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....Bell, George Anthony Hall February 21, 1831 - May 12, 1862
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Michael bell mab3591@yahoo.com June 25, 2007, 5:46 pm

Author: Michael A. Bell

George Anthony Hall Bell was born in Gwinnett County georgia on February 12, 
1831, but was raised in Meriwether County Georgia.  He was the son of Thomas N 
and Sarah Boyd Bell.  He was the brother of James Bell, Lucinda Bell Jourdan, 
Nancy Bell Kempson, Johnlee David Bell, Nathaniel Bell, and William Thomas 
Jefferson Bell.

He married Sarah Frances Gable of Coweta County Georgia on December 30, 1858 in 
Meriwether County, Georgia.  George and Sarah had one child, Nancy Elizabeth 
Bell, born on January 25, 1860.

Georgia joined the War between the States on the Confederate side and served as 
did each of his brother's.  He joined the War March 4, 1862 and enlisted as a 
private in company A, 41st Infantry Regiment but died in battle in Columbus 
Mississippi only a few months later on May 12, 1862.  He is buried at the 
friendship Cemetery in Columbus, Mississippi.  His tombstone has George A. Bell 
on it.

After the death of George A. Bell, Sarah Frances Gable Bell found a wounded 
union soldier around Coweta County Georgia, a Mr. James Pious Greer, took him 
into her home, nursed him back to health and married him on May 20, 1866 in 
Coweta County, Georgia.

Nancy Elizabeth Bell moved with her mother and stepfather to Meade County 
Kentucky.  Nancy was raised in Meade Kentucky where she met and married William 
H. Hardin and they moved to Breckinridge County Kentucky where they lived and 
died. 

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